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Metro overview, all trades

Home-service contractors in Trenton-Princeton, NJ

The Trenton-Princeton, NJ metro area has 1,090 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 28.56 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 621 records and 57.0% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 6.

No trade in Trenton-Princeton runs meaningfully ahead of New Jersey’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pool, cleaning, pest control contractors than the state average.

Among the 2 New Jersey metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Trenton-Princeton's largest trades: it is the thinnest of them for other home service; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is the thinnest of them for HVAC. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in New Jersey.

The facts for Trenton-Princeton

Home-service contractors in this metro
1,090
Per 10,000 residents
28.56 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
14
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
3
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,039 independent, 23 franchise brand, 21 corporate owned, 7 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.63% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.28% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 381,671, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Trenton-Princeton

Other home service is Trenton-Princeton's largest trade, and more than half of every record this site holds here sits in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.

In order, Trenton-Princeton's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Trenton-Princeton. The smallest of them here is pool.

Trenton-Princeton's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and cleaning. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

One Trenton-Princeton trade, pool, falls below the record floor a trade page has to clear, so it is answered on this page instead. Its count in the table is unchanged.

Per resident, Trenton-Princeton carries fewer home-service records than New Jersey as a whole, across all eleven trades summed together.

Roofing takes a larger share of Trenton-Princeton than of New Jersey, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Cleaning is thinner in Trenton-Princeton than across New Jersey, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and HVAC are Trenton-Princeton's three densest trades, and cleaning its thinnest.

No Trenton-Princeton trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Trenton-Princeton, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for electrical, roofing, plumbing and HVAC in Trenton-Princeton. Of those, electrical pays the most and HVAC the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Trenton-Princeton, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Trenton-Princeton's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 600 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 61 electrical records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other. HVAC, plumbing and roofing follow it.

Trenton-Princeton's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even. The franchised ones concentrate in pest control and the corporate-owned ones in pest control.

Within Trenton-Princeton, landscaping and HVAC are the most independently held trades and painting the least.

Almost none of Trenton-Princeton's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pest control holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Other home service is the Trenton-Princeton trade whose records most often carry no street address, and roofing the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Trenton-Princeton records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Cleaning added the largest share of new records and plumbing lost the largest share to closed flags.

One city inside Trenton-Princeton, Princeton, differs from the wider metro enough to carry pages of its own.

Trenton-Princeton, NJ sits inside New Jersey alone, so the labour market this page counts and the licensing regime that governs it are the same geography.

Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Trenton-Princeton on this site are Shreveport-Bossier City above it and Eugene-Springfield below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Trenton-Princeton's neighbours are New York-Newark-Jersey City and Spartanburg. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Trenton-Princeton

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning340.89Not published
Electrical611.60Not published$47.21
Flooring481.26Not published
HVAC711.86Not published$36.17
Landscaping952.49Not published
Painting411.07Not published
Pest control170.45Not published
Plumbing401.05Not published$36.71
Pool60.16Not published
Roofing561.47Not published$39.47
Other home service62116.27Not published

Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Roofers. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026.

One trade, pool, has fewer than 8 publishable records here, so the old pool URL for this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.

Cities inside Trenton-Princeton with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Princetonother home service62

The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.

Home-service contractors in New Jersey carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.